On 10 January 2014 15:18, Dominik Vogt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:45:51AM +0200, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: >> The only thing I found in "QUOTING" section in fvwm(1) that quoted characters >> are spaces (when using single/double/back quotes). > > [snip] >> But: > [snip] >> Echo "XXX YYY" >> [fvwm][Echo]: >> "XXX YYY" >> >> So seems that Echo is special form and don't follow traditional >> Fvwm quoting convention... Is that true or this is a bug? > > I'd call it a glitch. Something that wasn't really indended, that > is surprising and doesn't do any harm. Note that if you use > variables with the Echo command, they get properly expanded (e.g. > $[w.x]) whether inside or outside quotes.
Yes. I most likely introduced this, with this commit: "Fix Echo command displaying messages" Oh well. I really don't care; it's a cosmetic thing as far as Echo is concerned. As you say, Dominik, far too many commands to their own processing. Someone should unify that. :) Add that to the pot of other things to do. -- Thomas Adam
